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I live on good soup, not on fine words.

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We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Chance Myself Show Writing
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Honest Live Man Passion Worth
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
Music and dance are all you need.
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Dance Music Need
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst

I live on good soup, not on fine words.

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